Billie Jean King Quotes

American - Athlete Born: November 22, 1943

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. Billie Jean King

Life, Sports, Character, Win, You, Rules

Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie Jean King

Champions keep playing until they get it right. Billie Jean King

Sports, Champions, Right, Get, Keep

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. - Billie Jean King

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. Billie Jean King

Success, Champion, Losing, Winning, Else

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport. Billie Jean King

Change, Day, Tennis, Old, Years, Because

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. Billie Jean King

You, Bold, Afraid, Going, Ball, Make

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique. Billie Jean King

Work, Live, Culture, Unique, You, Earth

It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences. Billie Jean King

Celebrate, Start, Differences, Need, Our

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad. Billie Jean King

Women, Sad, Men, Attention, Get, Arena

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody. Billie Jean King

People, Gay, Know, Want, Admit, Everyone

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. Billie Jean King

Champion, Think, Important, Most, Being

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever. Billie Jean King

Losing, Victory, Forever, Fleeting

I wanted to use sports for social change. Billie Jean King

Change, Sports, Social Change, Social

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports. Billie Jean King

Women, Sports, People, Active, Okay

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it. Billie Jean King

Father, Woman, Husband, Credit, Her, Get

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing. Billie Jean King

Game, Care, You, Hard, Only, Playing

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much. Billie Jean King

King, Law, Recognition, You, Want, Never

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks. Billie Jean King

Risks, People, Chance, Like, Take, Who

I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it. Billie Jean King

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis. Billie Jean King

Women, Home, Men, Better, Survive, Than

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side. Billie Jean King

Love, Business, Coaching, Tennis, Side

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. Billie Jean King

Women, Sports, Beginning, Finally, Title

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. Billie Jean King

Leader, Man, Tough, Matter, Hard, Soft

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. Billie Jean King

Sports, Action, Perfect, Place, Tennis

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. Billie Jean King

Time, Girl, Fall, Scholarship, First

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready. Billie Jean King

You, Will, Ready, Tell, Out, Come

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman. Billie Jean King

Women, Sports, Business, Woman, Young

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